L3 Commercial Training Solutions (L3 CTS) is a

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provider and manufacturer of civil flight simulators based in

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, England. It is a subsidiary of American simulator manufacturer L-3 Link Simulation & Training, itself part of

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, and was formed as L-3 Link Simulation & Training UK in 2012, when L3 acquired the civil fixed-wing simulation division of

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(TTS).

History

L3 CTS was incorporated in 2006 as "L-3 Communications Group Limited", acting as holding company for the L-3 group in the United Kingdom. In 2012, when TTS was partially acquired, the company's name was changed to "L-3 Communications Link Simulation and Training UK Limited" (L-3 Link UK). In May 2015, the subsidiary L-3 CTC was formed, following the acquisition of British flight training provider CTC aviation, and in July 2016, L-3 Link UK and L-3 CTC were consolidated into L3 Commercial Training Solutions. L3 CTS and TTS are still co-located on the same site in

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, Crawley, and share the same ancestry, rooted in the US simulation business created by Ed Link in the 1930s and in the British simulator manufacturer

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(later Rediffusion). Recently, L3 Airline Academy has been granted the contract to train the RAF (Royal Air Forces) Multi Engine Aircraft pilots.

Products and services

L3 CTS's core product is the RealitySeven line of

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s, which covers a wide range of aircraft types: from turboprop ATR72 to single-aisle Embraer E2,

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and wide-bodies Boeing 747, Boeing 767, Boeing 777,

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and Airbus A330,

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and Airbus A380. A major part of the business is also the provision of

services, including cadet selection, ab initio training and airline training, both in the UK and in

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, Thailand, through the controlled Asian Aviation Training Center, which was acquired as part of the TTS deal.

References

External links

Company website
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